A collection of political commentary and analysis surrounding Budget 2026, focusing on cost of living, education funding, climate policy risks, transparency issues, and the government’s balancing act between fiscal constraints and public demands.
How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
You know, when we're talking about the New Zealand initiative, I saw a comment go. So, what's the big deal with the New Zealand initiative? Used to be called the New Zealand business round table. It is a right-wing business-driven think tank and policy advisement uh workshop that is aligned with the Atlas Network, which is of course backed by tobacco very anti-climate change because they're also backed by the fossil fuel extraction industry as well.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
a direct consequence of policy failure
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